Hi, I’m Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy. I am very pleased to be guest contributor to socialpacks.com. Alex suggested that I do a post on career advice – especially for those of you who have just received your degree and are beginning your career.

Over the past several years, I have developed a model of career and life success that I call Star Power. The Star Power model holds that all successful people are skilled in five major areas: Self Confidence, Personal Impact, Outstanding Performance, Communication Skills and Interpersonal Competence.

I have identified three sub components for each of the five points on the Star Power model which means that people will have at least three things in common:

Self Confidence

1. Self confident people are optimistic.
2. Self confident people face their fears and deal with them.
3. Self confident people surround themselves with positive people.

Personal Impact

1. People with powerful personal impact develop and constantly promote their personal brand.
2. People with powerful personal impact are impeccable in their presentation of self.
3. People with powerful personal impact know and practice the basic rules of etiquette.

Outstanding Performance

1. Outstanding performers are technically competent.
2. Outstanding performers set and achieve goals.
3. Outstanding performers are organized.

Communication Skills

1. Good communicators are excellent conversationalists.
2. Good communicators write in a clear, concise easily readable manner.
3. Good communicators are excellent presenters – to groups of two or 100.

Interpersonal Competence

1. Interpersonally competent people are self aware. They understand themselves, and as a result they understand others.
2. Interpersonally competent people build solid, long lasting mutually beneficial relationships with the people in their lives.
3. Interpersonally competent people are able to resolve conflicts with a minimal amount of problems and upset to relationships.

It is my experience that people who are a success in their careers and lives are competent in all of the components of the Star Power model and really good at one or two of them.

You can learn more about my thoughts on career and life success by reading my ebook Star Power: Common Sense Ideas for Career and Life Success. You can get the ebook by going to www.SuccessCommonSense.com and clicking on the cover of the Star Power book on the right side of the page. This will take you to a place where you can sign up for my Common Sense Ezine and download a .pdf of the ebook.

You have my best wishes for your career and life success.